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Hi, glad you resolved it. What was happening here is slightly different still:

In the first case, the commands before the | are executed in a subshell, and therefore variable assignments made there will not persist in the main shell. The assignment will show up with the set -x option, but it will not persist.

In the second case the pipeline is part of the assignment inside a command substitution, so it will persist but gawk '{print $6}' filtered out the value, so what got persistently stored in the variable was an empty value.
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trap, onintr - shell built-in functions to respond to (hardware) signals SYNOPSIS
sh trap [ argument n [n2...]] csh onintr [-| label] ksh *trap [ arg sig [ sig2...]] DESCRIPTION
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